Archive for September, 2007

The obvious problem with cyber-crime is that, unlike decent murdering and burglarizing criminals, they are intelligent enough to make a fool of you and your anti-viral software by using insidious methods, which are difficult to recognize. Five of their (albeit outdated) tricks have been reviewed by Erik Larkin of Yahoo. The first one is the Glieder. More...

Apple’s Quicktime and Microsoft Windows Media Player could continue to be ways of infection regardless of what the default internet browser a user has. This is due to two different exploits which have been recently found by security experts. Even though Mozilla has patched Firefox, it’s users are still vulnerable to the QuickTime flaw, as Apple has failed to fully patch it. More...

McAfee and Symantec, the two largest computer security vendors, are searching for ways to beat one another in the enterprise market. With more stealthy threats circling the web, both companies  see this as a perfect time to strengthen their positions. Symantec’s approach to this opportunity is to release a product, that has many functions in one. More...

The Storm worm has been around for a while and it has infected a lot of computers since the outbreak on the 15th of August. It changes tactics from time to time to fool people and keep spreading. The main way of Storm worm distribution is spam emails that are usually infected or lead to infected websites. More...

Spammers target those that are concerned with computer security. New spam messages appeared just few days ago. This time you get an email from Microsoft that has a ‘security update’ attached or links to the patch. More...

eBay, the most visited commercial site in the UK, apart from legitimate items, such as fluffy bears and the like, has now been reported to be selling hacking kits for anyone who would like to spy on someone’s computer and obtain personal details. The kits are sold together with a manual on how and where to use them. You can buy them for as little as £10. More...

Even though Apple’s new product, The iPhone, is yet to be compromised by security risks, there are potential ways hackers can use to do so. Marius Van Oers, a security researcher for McAffe, has made a presentation in a security conference held in Vienna explaining a few ways that could be used to infect the iPhone. The iPhone uses the mobile version of the Apple-made Safari web browser. More...

A war is fought between geeks over who can infect users’ computers to produce the biggest number of e-mail addresses. The winner is bound to make a lot of money from spammers who try to lead you into anything ranging from buying prescription drugs to joining porn sites (possibly infecting you with spyware in the process). The reason they are doing this is because it works. More...

Perko Petrov, an independent security researcher, has found a new Firefox exploit. The existence of the flaw is due to the way that Firefox and Quicktime work together. If the computer is unpatched, the exploit could allow privileged code to run and access data. More...

Malware creators no longer distribute viruses that erase your data or corrupt something in your computer.   Now they want to have profit of breaking into your computer in all possible ways. Modern malware steal bank accounts, email accounts, identities, turn computer into spamming machine or use it for further malicious actions. More...